And realize that if you're distrustful of the cable, you should be even more distrustful of that gadget which has even more space to add malicious parts and you're still unable to check it.
The normal PortaPow tells the device that it's a charger.
The extra paranoid version with no components on the board will often limit charging, it depends on how the device treats a complete lack of data pins.
Not exactly. You now have to trust one entity instead of many, and it's an extremely small chip that can't do much, and the hack would have to be built in at purchase time, and the hack would have to take over your phone to exfiltrate.
But if you're worried then get one that has a resistor and only a resistor.
It depends on what kind of attack you're trying to block.
If you want to block attacks that use the external data pins, then a USB condom will keep you safe. Regardless of whether it has a chip in it.
If you want to block standalone attacks from a malicious cable, then a USB condom wasn't going to help in the first place. For standalone attacks in particular, the risk from a chip-having condom is similar to the risk from a cable, but a cable can use bigger and scarier chips than the one in the PortaPow.
I'm trying to cut meats out of my diet slowly. All seafood was easy as I was never that into it. Pig meat on the other hand... Bacon, Ham, Pork, etc. I knew that it had to go. So I started with that.
Currently I'm an opportunitarian. Chicken is the meat of choice if I can't handle the vegetarian option, otherwise beef. But pig and all seafood is gone from my diet. My hope is that plant-based or cultured meat improves to the point where I don't have these ethical dilemmas anymore. Until then I'll do my best.
I know it's not perfect but it's something. I think more people need to understand that eating and culture are hard to seperate and we need to accomodate that. Making meat a sometimes food is the first step.
Good for you. Keep at it! I became a vegetarian a year ago, at the age of 42, when my eating habits were firmly established. I loved meat and seafood of all kinds, and was the sort of carnivore who was proud of eating the weirdest and bloodiest animal parts available. But at some point I started actually thinking about the animals and the ethics of killing for food, and I couldn’t conscience it any more. Now that you are thinking about it too, I expect your journey will end with you also ceasing to eat meat. Your other option is to tamp down those feelings and ignore what you are feeling is wrong. For good people, that is not easy.
I know you didn’t ask for advice, so apologies in advance, but a really helpful thing is to simply ensure you have plentiful vegetarian food available, so you don’t get too hungry. Eg nuts, seeds, fruit (including dried), plus stuff you can easily use to whip up tasty dishes, like rice you’ve already cooked and can fry with mushrooms or something. At this point the only things I miss are cured meats like ham and salami. But I eat very well every day and in general feel very happy with my choice.
In our case we have to avoid gluten, which means avoiding wheats. Most vegetarian dishes contain wheat in some form. So far I haven’t been able to create a week menu with sufficient nutrients without meat or gluten.
It would mean taking supplements. Not sure whether I can stomach the hit to enjoying food it would entail.
Maize, rice, potatoes, sweat potatoes, bananas are among the alternative sources that can provide as much starch as wheat, but without any gluten.
I do not have gluten intolerance, but I like better the sources of starch mentioned above, so there are decades since I have last eaten wheat or any of its relatives that contain gluten.
However, I eat only food that I prepare myself from raw ingredients, so I can control precisely its composition. Therefore I can easily avoid what I do not want, e.g. wheat, sugar or undesirable fat sources.
While avoiding gluten is easy, completely avoiding meat is much more difficult, because unlike some kinds of meat, e.g. turkey meat, which are almost pure protein, so you can easily make a menu with a small quantity of meat that is enough to cover your daily needs, covering the same needs with vegetable protein is difficult.
The same small quantity of protein requires either a much larger quantity of vegetables with high protein content and mixed from at least 2 different kinds with complementary amino-acid profile, which will provide much more calories than meat, so to compensate you will have to eat less of other vegetables that you might like more, or you might want to replace meat with vegetable protein extracts, but those are much more expensive than meat and I would not trust their producers to use the best extraction procedures instead of using the cheapest extraction methods.
For now, I do not have enough time and money to eat completely vegan food, so I make 2 exceptions.
My daily menus include 160 g of turkey meat and a spoon of fish oil.
Because these 2 items cover the required daily intake for everything that is hard to get from completely vegan food, I am free to choose the rest of the food from a large variety of strictly non-animal sources.
Tried to reduce the meat in my diet, to be honest even beforehand I was probably under the average. But I had hard time staying in pure veg diet. But I never managed to stay on only vegetarian diet. I am not monitoring myself but have few days of no meat a week, depending on my mood and whats in fridge.
I also only eat free range meat now, its much more ethical (in my mind at least). You still eat animals, but at least they had a safe environment to live in. I am not feeling guilty and I think its ok to just reduce amounts and experiment with veg dishes.
I'm vegan, I love it when people to take this approach. I went through the same process: I eliminated red meat first, then chicken, then fish, hung out for a while as vegetarian, then dropped honey/dairy, and then (hardest step) cheese before finally making the jump to full veganism. Currently trying to reduce cocoa, though I haven't completely eliminated it yet.
Part of what I like about people taking the more gradual approach is that I think they're much less likely to hit a wall and then go back to eating everything. Instead, every step of the process starts from a position of security/safety, and it ends up looking more like a person saying, "I'm comfortable not eating X, maybe I could also be comfortable not eating Y." And I think that makes things a lot less intimidating, and I think it makes it easier to build a different palete, and I think it means that each step is something that's small and surmountable rather than forcing you to build a substitute for every single food at once.
One thing I did as even a micro-step for some categories like dairy was to allow myself to order certain food at a restaurant but not buy it at a grocery store. You could also do the opposite -- depending on where you live, going vegetarian/vegan at restaurants is a good way of figuring out what alternative foods exist and what options you have for meat/dairy replacements.
And honestly, I also think this approach lines up somewhat well with veganism's overall philosophy, which is not about being in a position of moral superiority or about being perfect, it's about reducing harm. Going vegan doesn't mean none of your consumption contributes to suffering, it just reduces that number a bit. And the gradual process (on top of being (imo) easier to do and being less likely to result in backsliding to older habits) also kind of forces the person to live for a while in an uncomfortable place where they're trying to do better and aren't necessarily happy with their efforts or where they currently are. Again opinion me, but I think that's a good emotion for people to get used to if they become vegan; it guards against some of the tendency towards self-importance or pride that gets associated with veganism sometimes. I think it's good to be in a mindset of "X causes suffering, and independent of any other factor do I personally need to do X?"
Of course I'm hoping people go further than just reducing meat consumption, and I do hope that people don't take one step and say, "that's good enough, I don't need to ever think about this again." I also encourage taking tangible steps where you completely cut a food out rather than just reduce it, because "reducing" is a really fuzzy word that is easy to backslide on, and eliminating a food from a diet is a lot more tangible. But even if someone doesn't go any further or take those more tangible steps, reducing is still better than nothing. And I just think -- start with reducing, and see what happens. If you find out you can reduce, then maybe you can stretch a bit further and full-on eliminate that specific animal product, and then maybe you can stretch a bit further again and repeat the process with something else.
You get used to just looking around creatively at your life to see if there are small improvements to your consumption habits you can make, and then afterwards looking around again to see if there are new improvements you can make. I make vegan meals and enjoy certain vegetables now that I would not have had either the knowledge to pull off or the palete to enjoy when I started reducing meat. I think back to when I was getting rid of beef/pork, and there are literally foods that I didn't like back then that are now solid meat substitutes for me.
It is not dead, but also not progressing very fast. I think low adoption rate is their biggest hurdle, and subsequent lack of network effects in the development community. Solid based on a bunch of Linked Data standards which find most traction in small academic circles. Few sexy applications or good libraries to build from.
It's not dead! It's just no longer at MIT (as is also mentioned on the website you linked). Tim founded a startup called inrupt (disclosure: I work there, opinions my own) that aims to stimulate commercial adoption. The links in the sibling comment by rapnie are an excellent place to start.
How does an organisation even stimulate others to adopt Solid? I cannot imagine your daily activities. Can you elaborate, assuming you would be comfortable to do so?
I can't disclose everything (I'm not involved with all the parts of the company), but the most important way in which I contribute to that is by building developer tooling and writing documentation for engineers looking to write apps on Solid.
Feeding in the names of GOT characters seems to produce some entertaining alternate-universe stuff, looks like they're trying to generate something similar to a Wiki page:
Ned Stark (The Lord of Winterfell) is a Stark from the North of the Seven Kingdoms.
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Biography
Background
Ned is the father of Arya, Brandon, Robb, Rickon, and Hodor. He had married Catelyn Tully after her father died in the Battle of the Whispering Wood. During the War of the Five Kings he served as Hand of the King under Lord Eddard Stark after his father's death. Ned has two brothers, Willem and Torrhen Stark. Ned, his siblings and their children were all killed during the Red Wedding
It was [setting] in the [location]. The [creature] [action], and [intent] said "
And here's some of the results of the first complete sentence for a few iterations of each prompt (the intention being the prompts can be generated at runtime)
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It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "Who are you? Where are you coming from?"
It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "We are not going to allow the Dark Lord to rule this world. We are going to rule this world from the top. You should go back to the shadows, or you can just go to my dungeon."
It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "What are you doing?"
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It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Good evening, we are ready for our banquet."
It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Hey! I've been waiting for you! This is the first time I've seen you."
It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Welcome, My Lady! I am here to serve you!"
It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "I am Tui-Yuan. Come down and meet my parents."
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It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I will tell you everything."
It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I have an idea" in a voice so high that all the other rats in the sewer turned pale
It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I am the rat."
It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "You'll die soon".
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It was humid in the abandoned brothel. The policeman barged in, and brusquely said "I'm a policeman".
It was humid in the abandoned brothel. The policeman barged in, and brusquely said "go to hell".
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It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "It's warm on the other side."
It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "Hello" while it slowly closed in.
It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "I hate this cold."
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I think there's a lot of merit to this idea hey. Some of the responses are left field but could be woven into the charm. I guess the algorithm is pretty processor intensive though - is it worth it for "flavour"? It could work for a low fidelity or text based game I think.
Edit: I think it would work better if the prompt is not displayed, you just see the bit following the quote.
When it hit around the $30 mark I was thinking that was going to be where it levelled off and I was actually excited for it to become a stable currency.
I was pretty wrong, both about it being a stable and a currency.
As another commenter mentioned, I'm also excited to have been here for it all and stille excited to see where it leads. Ultimately, whether you love it or hate it, Bitcoin has made its mark on history and has kind of become the giant shoulders that the next generation can stand on.
And from 1200 to 120, and from 20k to 3k, but today is 9k, so on the average year-to-year the price was always on the rise. You do know there are right now more millionaires on Earth then the total number of bitcoins that will ever be. So when bitcoin going to be all 21 millions mined, there will be not enough for all millionaires to buy one. Let that sink.
There are also more millionaires on earth right now than there ever will be of my exclusive cryptocurrency, MoonCoin. I’d be happy to sell you one for 1,000 USD
> ... so on the average year-to-year the price was always on the rise.
Really? Even in 2018? It wasn't, it started at $17K (when I sold) and ended at $3k.
> So when bitcoin going to be all 21 millions mined, there will be not enough for all millionaires to buy one. Let that sink.
And? There's not enough millionaires in the world to buy more than 1 Transamerica Pyramid, either. That means absolutely nothing. There's not enough millionaires on earth to buy 1 BTC each today and it means nothing.
e.g https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=PortaPow